Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Submarine/archive1

Submarine[edit]

An interesting article, and thorough; good pictures. The history includes even some of the more obscure precursors. Not a self-nomination, although I might try to improve it. --Andrew 22:20, May 3, 2004 (UTC)

I agree. Support with expanded reference to the Nautilus and the role of Admiral Hyman Rickover in its creation, especially since its fiftieth anniversary was just this past January. There was an interesting article about Nautilus in last year's Farmer's Almanac. I no longer have the magazine, though. Anyone else? - Lucky 6.9 00:23, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest using subheadings in history section, and suggest series on submarine articles. Support - MGM 09:46, May 4, 2004 (UTC)
A picture showing the scale of modern submarines would be good...you can't tell size from the photo (even better would be silhouettes showing the relative scales of modern and older subs, with a scale bar and maybe a tiny human figure for reference). Is that too much to ask? (At least note the scale, i.e. the length of the sub, on the photo caption.) —Steven G. Johnson 05:16, May 5, 2004 (UTC)
Support. I had to rewrite the paragraph on hull shapes (it didn't even mention the word "teardrop"!). I also fixed formatting at the end, and added an extremely good picture which (as someone had requested above) should allow you to judge scale. →Raul654 15:50, May 9, 2004 (UTC)